Here is a treat for all the election-watchers and politicos out there

4 Responses to Here is a treat for all the election-watchers and politicos out there

1. jinspace says:

   December 25, 2011 at 7:09 am

   Sally – Or screw the technology and return to old fashioned, non-electronic, mechanical voting machines.

   A wise friend reacted decades ago to the rampant sexual “freedoms” of the 70′s (or was it the 80′s?), “just because it’s now acceptable to have sex with everyone on the planet, doesn’t mean I have to.” Likewise, just because a technology exists, doesn’t mean we have to embrace it, either.

   Eric – the product of its own technology, or the victim? This was the major theme explored in 2001, no? (the novel & the movie, of course, not the year)

   Such jolly, loving thoughts on Christmas day!
2. sally says:

   December 24, 2011 at 9:27 am

   Wow. Yeah, thanks for the timely reminder.

   In case anyone needed another excuse to up their technological fluency…learn to code!
3. Eric Francis says:

   December 24, 2011 at 6:42 am

   You could call this a society becoming the product of its technology.
4. granma says:

   December 24, 2011 at 6:29 am

   Thank you for posting this.
   Feel like I’ve been a fog of ignorance.
   Evidently it used to be more cumbersome to rig elections (registering dead people, animals, non-English-speaking folks, casting more than one vote, etc.) – but now, in our tech age, it’s as simple as writing a computer program that can’t be detected because it will “eat” its own code (according to programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis – the source code is the only way to access the illegal program – and it can be set to eat itself).
   This is boggling my mind.